“What? Absolutely not!” Anna smiled narrowing her eyes and covering her mouth, “I didn’t misunderstand anything at all, rest assured, if you want to live here it’s no problem, at most I’ll come every day to keep you company.”
“Then I thank you from the bottom of my heart, I hope you’ll really come to keep me company and not to eat and drink your fill.”
“Geez! Serena, you are exaggerating!”
The next few days, she stayed in the hotel for three or four consecutive days without ever putting her nose out of the house, and her life could have been described as eating, sleeping and eating, and all news from the outside world was left, by her, outside.
This kind of life that paralyzed her emotions she was living it, unexpectedly, quite well.
There were, however, always people and situations that did not allow her to truly enjoy the quiet.
Arrived at the fifth day, early in the morning the doorbell rang continuously, Serena was still sleeping and was awakened by that noise.
She had no choice but to go and open the door and outside it she saw her foster mother looking at her with an astonished expression.
“Of course you are here, silly girl, you were easily found by your mother! “.
Seeing her mother, her mind went blank for a long time, however, this one did not wait for her reaction, but rather pushed her way inside to enter and behind her she also brought another person, namely Serena’s sister Aurora.
“Aurora, say hello to your sister.” The mother dragged her daughter in front of Serena and uttered this phrase in a flattering manner.
As soon as the two had entered, Serena led the way for them and she stood near the wall and her back was close to the icy wall.
Looking closely, Aurora’s expression was reluctant, she raised her head to look at her for a moment, and that look was full of refractoriness, hatred, anger, and so many feelings put together.
Serena shifted her gaze and saw Aurora’s…
“She is not my sister, she is now the young lady of the Giordano family, how could she still consider me as her sister since I have nothing?”
After hearing these words, the expression on her mother’s face changed radically and, with a false smile, she said; “Sorry, Serena, Aurora is having a tantrum, she’s afraid you won’t recognize her as her sister. But after all, you grew up together, your bond is very deep, Aurora is your sister and she is more so than a natural sister, Serena… You used to spoil her all the time, didn’t you?”
“Ouch, who wants to be spoiled by her? Mom, let me go.” Aurora divined her hand and with pouty lips, said : “I absolutely do not need her to spoil me, she will no longer consider me as her sister.”
Aurora was very capricious and this Serena knew.
The latter, however, had always thought of her as a younger sister, so the fact that she would have this kind of reaction, he had already imagined long ago, and could only say to her weakly, “She is right, in fact I am your sister.”
Hearing those words, Aurora almost dared not believe them and looked at her, hesitating, “Are you still willing to recognize me as your sister?”
Serena smiled slightly and told her, “Why shouldn’t I consider you as such?”
Although there was no blood relationship between the two, she had from the beginning anyway treated this family as her own. Not to mention Aurora whom she had always loved as a real sister.
Although she sometimes got angry with her, all it would take was for her sister to persuade her with a few nice phrases and she would have no chance.
The look with which Aurora looked at her, lingered and became strange, her neck retracted and she said : “I thought that when you became the young lady of the Giordano family, you would no longer recognize me as a sister, besides, I have nothing, in the past I have always made you angry, you certainly detest me.”
These words made Serena helpless, but it was not necessary for her to explain herself, because her mother spoke for her.
“What nonsense are you talking? You are sisters, how could your sister hate you? In the past she has always stepped aside on any occasion for you.”
It seemed that what had just been said was true, and so Aurora stopped speaking.
The mother seeing that the two daughters had calmed down, began to turn her gaze inside the house, “Serena, have you been living here lately? By now you’ve already made contact with the Giordano family, why don’t you go live with them instead of humbling yourself to live in a place like this?”
Facing her mother, Serena’s words of a past evening came to mind and her face turned cold: “It’s quiet here, I like it very much.”
After hearing those words, the mother felt as if her heart had been pierced and she did not feel comfortable, then said again : “But what tranquility? Where is tranquility in a hotel? It is not clean and besides it is not safe to live there alone, hurry up and pack your things, I will take you home Giordano.”
After she finished talking her mother really pushed her inside the room and insisted, “Make it quick, your sister has no class at school today, I’m taking her to visit the Giordano family estate.”
The expression on Serena’s face at those words became a little embarrassed, she bit her lower lip and stated, “Who wants to go there… I don’t like it.”
“What nonsense you’re talking, we’re just going to have a look.” As soon as he had finished speaking, he again turned a smile to his daughter, “Quick, Serena go pack your things.”
Serena stood still without moving and after a moment, the smile on her mother’s face vanished : “Why don’t you move?”
“I don’t want to go home Giordano.” The tone of her words was cold, “I like living here.”
“You! Say, are you or are you not stupid? You are already the young lady of the Giordano family, how come you still live in this hotel? Do you perhaps want the family to think that you don’t want to enter their house, if your social position was taken away from you by someone else, how would you do it?”
“That’s not possible.” Serena shook her head slightly, “These kinds of things, they cannot be taken away by someone. Even if that happened, the position not being his, he would have to return it sooner or later.”
As for example, Alice, when she became the young lady of the Giordano family, had to return this privilege to its rightful owner after a few years.
She at that point, would have fallen from the stars to the stables.
Why bother?
The mother was speechless for a moment, although she knew what her daughter was saying was true, but… Her purpose was to visit the Giordano family.
Thinking about this, she again said brazenly, “If you really want to live here, that’s fine, your sister and I have never been to that house, we want to go visit.”
“I’m not the head of the Giordano family, I’m afraid I can’t make such a decision. If Mrs. Gallo wants to go there, she will have to phone Mr. Matteo first.”
“You, what did you call me?” For a moment she had no reaction, but then shocked she said, “Did you really call me Mrs. Gallo?”
Serena’s face was indifferent and her gaze was also icy.
“Since I am not a daughter of the Gallo family, of course I can only call you Mrs. Gallo.”
“You, you want to end relations with our family? Did you call me Mrs. Gallo to disown your past?
I want to tell you, Serena, that I raised you to be great, at first to raise you, I….”
“I don’t want to deny your contribution, so Mrs. Gallo you don’t have to hurry in saying these words, what is due to the Gallo family, the Giordano family will surely give it to them.”
Upon hearing this, the mother slightly squinted her eyes : “So what you mean to say is….”
“Serena, what do you mean? Do you mean that your mother wants to collect a debt? Do you really think you can look down on others just because you have taken flight?
Look down on them? Serena said to her, “Who would I look down on?”